Check up Time.

On Thursday we went to the doctor for Kate's 9 month (9 months...really, already?!!) check up. It was good for the most part. The doctor said that she looks and sounds great. She really is just a healthy chubby baby. Her stats came in at 28 inches 50%tile, 17lbs 14oz don't know what %tile, and her head was in the 25-50%tile. Well, that was all the good news lol as for the rest of the news...Kate is still not crawling as of yet, and really not doing much of anything. The doctor recommended that we start taking her to physical therapy. He said that he isn't SUPER worried that she's not crawling...but he is concerned that she's not actively rolling, isn't getting to a sitting position by herself and WILL NOT put ANY weight on her legs. He said that he's checked her out and everything in her legs feels fine and working but it's not normal for you to try to stand a baby up and instead of standing as you hold them to instead totally draw up their legs and not even attempt to stand on them. SO, that being said we will work on getting her into physical therapy this week and at least getting her tested. On the food front, she is still having issues with dairy and soy and it seems like a million other things. Unless I feed her sweet potatoes, pears or baby cereal with apple juice she seems to get clogged up for 3 days! During which time she can be cranky during the days, ALWAYS want MOM (and no one else), and wakes up about 3x a night....all of which quickly drain me. So, I was telling this to the doc. and he suggested that I start putting 1TBS of Karo syrup in every meal....odd huh. He said that it should help loosen things up. I guess we'll wait and see. I've been doing it but so far it hasn't been much help but that could be because I've been sneaking in some dairy....sometime I just can't resist. (side note we had a YW leader and spouse party and one of these ladies brought these pickled asparagus wrapped in ham with laughing cow cheese....oh my, those we the best things ever!!! I should have just stayed away, but I wanted to try just a bite. They were so good I couldn't stop, after 4 I knew I was in trouble and had to just leave the room. ) Hopefully they Karo will help or that she will just grow out of it (soon!) because the tummy troubles are really...well just annoying. It's hard enough to watch what a baby eats but she makes it really hard.



Austin, what's new with Austin. TONS!! He is getting so big so fast. Here is a little info on what he's up to:



Austin loves to: ride his bike (even if he still can't reach the pedals), play with friends especially Maddex, play with Dave and toys in nursery, run in circles....literally, read, be outside, bubbles, go anywhere in the Do Do (Devon's Truck)



Loves to watch: Trucks (anything that has trucks in it...he prefers them not to be animated), Thomas the Tank Engine, ELMO, Bob the Builder, the movie Cars, "Animals" which is the movie Madagascar, George (curious George) and Doggie (Clifford the Big Red Dog) and Babies (which is ANY Baby Einstein). He really doesn't watch that much tv...but when he gets the change he knows just what he wants.



Loves to eat: EVERYTHING lol. He really is a good eater. Some of his favorites are PASTA, pasta and pasta. He would eat is all day everyday with anything on it. Yogurt, applesauce, pepperoni, cheese - cheddar or Parmesan but not cheese sticks - weird, ANYTHING with cream cheese, juice, green beans, broccoli and cauliflower especially with cheese sauce, and crackers.



He is starting to talk like crazy and makes Devon and I laugh daily. Sometimes he says the funniest stuff. I would post things he likes to say but we would be here all day. Some of my favoirtes are....ood norning mom...hi...ood norning. norning Tate, norning Hausin...and he will keep saying norning until you answer him and say Good Mornign Austin. Another thing that makes me laugh is now when I take him to the bathroom, once I get his pants down he yells at me Go Way...no elp...go way and he waits until I leave the bathroom before he will pee. It's too early for me to think of any more but he's fun. I love finally being able to understand what he's jibbering about. One thing that he says that I HATE is MINE! So, that's a no no word at our house now. So instead of mine he yells Hausin's. I usually over hear something like this.....EEEKKK no Tate! Hausins truck, Hausins! or if I take a drink of his juice before I give the cup to him he says...no mom, hausin's juice! Which isn't much better, but I do prefer it to NO MINE!!!

Okay well the kids are up and it's time to get crackalacking for the day.